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indiana


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Stircrazy wrote:
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I can't see a win in either sadly Mouat seems checked out this week. Thank goodness for Weston!

And Team GB duly loses to the Canucks, who must be recovering their mojo after all the cheating hooha, by 5-9.  Must beat the Yanks tomorrow...

Richard Winton on the current state of play:

Switzerland are through. Canada have all but joined them.

And there's a four-way fight for the final two semi-final places. Italy, Norway, United States and Great Britain are scrapping it out. Each have four wins, but the latter two have one fewer game to play.

All Bruce Mouat and his boys can do is beat the US on Wednesday and see what happens elsewhere, with the final round-robin matches on Thursday morning.

 GB are still in with a a reasonable squeak on the face of it If they beat USA they end the RR on 5 wins, 4 losses. Italy and Norway each have to win their last 2 RR matches to move to 6 wins, but for both of them these matches are against Switzerland and Canada, the top 2 who are already through to the SFs. I believe that if there is not a clear top 4 in terms of wins they hold play-off matches to determine the final SF spot(s).

Maybe they'll all fix things to get rid of the Brits!!  Though Bruce & co could err achieve that by themselves by losing to USA.



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The women's GB Curling team is now tagged as 'inexperienced' to explain all their mistakes. Currently playing against USA

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The women's GB Curling team is now tagged as 'inexperienced' to explain all their mistakes. Currently playing against USA

 They won smile



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DF wrote:
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The women's GB Curling team is now tagged as 'inexperienced' to explain all their mistakes. Currently playing against USA

 They won smile

 South Korea won though and move onto 5 wins- as there are 4 teams now at 5 wins or more and we can only reach 4

wins, it means our womens team go out. 

unless ive miscalculated how it works! 



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JonH comes home wrote:
DF wrote:
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The women's GB Curling team is now tagged as 'inexperienced' to explain all their mistakes. Currently playing against USA

 They won smile

 South Korea won though and move onto 5 wins- as there are 4 teams now at 5 wins or more and we can only reach 4

wins, it means our womens team go out. 

unless ive miscalculated how it works! 

 They've still got a very outside chance. That's our women onto 3 wins and 4 losses with still 2 matches left so they can reach 5 wins.



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DF wrote:
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The women's GB Curling team is now tagged as 'inexperienced' to explain all their mistakes. Currently playing against USA

 They won smile

Stunning shot by Rebecca Morrison to nick it! 

Richard Winton at 10.51:

Until about five minutes ago, it looked like GB's meetings with Japan later on Wednesday (18:05 GMT) and Italy on Thursday (13:05) were moot. Not any more...

A couple of wins against two teams below them in the standings might just squeek [sic] them into the semi-finals. Dearie me.



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indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
DF wrote:
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The women's GB Curling team is now tagged as 'inexperienced' to explain all their mistakes. Currently playing against USA

 They won smile

 South Korea won though and move onto 5 wins- as there are 4 teams now at 5 wins or more and we can only reach 4

wins, it means our womens team go out. 

unless ive miscalculated how it works! 

 They've still got a very outside chance. That's our women onto 3 wins and 4 losses with still 2 matches left so they can reach 5 wins.

 Id missed it carries on tomorrow. TBH followed so little of this its sad really. I usually love Winter Olympics but this year its just not happened for me. 



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Looking at the schedule, tbf our women maybe actually have a better than my calling it "a very outside chance".

GB's last 2 matches ( clearly they still have to win both and hope ) are against low in the table Japan and Italy While the 3 teams on 5 wins ( Sweden are on 6 ) have on paper tougher looking matches to play including 2 of them meeting, USA ( 1 match left ) vs Switzerland ( 2 matches left ).

We could still win 2 curling golds. biggrin



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Loving the optimism!!
What a last stone by GB!

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indiana wrote:

Looking at the schedule, tbf our women maybe actually have a better than my calling it "a very outside chance".

GB's last 2 matches ( clearly they still have to win both and hope ) are against low in the table Japan and Italy While the 3 teams on 5 wins ( Sweden are on 6 ) have on paper tougher looking matches to play including 2 of them meeting, USA ( 1 match left ) vs Switzerland ( 2 matches left ).

We could still win 2 curling golds. biggrin

I wish... 

This is how the Beeb sees it:

GB still with work to do

Curling table

If you missed it earlier, Team GB's women's curling team claimed victory from the jaws of defeat against the USA to keep alive their hopes of reaching the semi-finals.

Rebecca Morrison's rink head into another must-win meeting with bottom-of-the-table Japan later on Wednesday (18:05 GMT) before facing second-bottom Italy on Thursday (13:05).

 

 



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It's still slim for the women.
Even if they win both matches, they will be relying on other results and a draw shot challenge.

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